Linden Lab hiring party at GDC

Is it our collective imagination or is GDC (the games developer's conference, upcoming in San Francisco) becoming more like E3, with parties, media, announcements and demos? We wonder how long it will take before developers need another conference to swap information, algorithms and techniques so they can leave the marketers to drive GDC over a cliff.

That said, you can still find actual developers at GDC. No, really. There are still useful talks and panels and companies looking for talent. Linden Lab are a regular at GDC (although when we asked who will be there, and what talks or sessions they'd be running, they didn't give us an answer). Linden Lab are also having a hiring party. If you read their blog though, you wouldn't know about it.

One sharp-eyed reader (thanks Matt!) spotted that they snuck out a posting on Craigslist. Why post there instead of on their own blog? Hard to say. Maybe they don't actually want Second Life users among the applicants this time-around.

The featured job on their VIP page is Web-Developer. Good thing too we suppose, because when we checked they had a tomcat failure and the signup forms and job descriptions had become unavailable, being replaced with 404 errors. Most definitely a cry for help.